Today was obviously a very intense day. Pol Pot really was a Communist Dictator who tried to create a classless society. To do so, he had to eliminate the former elite and intelligentsia.
Many thousands of people were arrested and tortured until they admitted their "crimes". Then they were taken to places like this for execution. Death came brutally and not necessarily quickly. For most, the instruments were clubs and hoes and axes, etc. Bullets were rarely used because the victims were not worth the cost.
By the end of the Pol Pot Regime, the population had been reduced by three million. Many of these had left the country, but estimates say that as many as 2.5 million may have gone to the killing fields.
Ninety percent of the teachers in the country were killed.
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| In many places, bones have been exhumed and put on display. |
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| Some sites have been memorialized. |
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| Phany, our local guide, lost two grandparents. His wife lost most of her family. |
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| Mass Graves |
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| This gentleman is one of seven survivors in S-21 when the PolPot Regime fell. |
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| In Memorium |
S-21 was once a high school in Phnom Penh. It was turned into a prison where victims were brought until they "confessed".
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